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As I find my own online autobiography [qv] growing in unexpected ways, I'm starting this page with resources and links on this topic.
What's most interesting to me at the moment is the idea of having separate pages for each topic in your life-- music, books, movies, career, etc. (Here's one that's way better than mine: Evany Thomas.)
And I'm also interested in how to enrich the text with hyperlinks.
NEW: mailing list on these topics
Think about movie storylines. Often, a director will choose to tell the story in flashbacks, or to intersplice flashbacks with current action. Others may use different voices: the narrator telling the story as a child, as a teenager, as an adult.
Keep the time line nearby for a couple of days and keep filling it out. Ask yourself some questions: How can I summarize my life? What are the themes? The most important things that happened? The biggest events? What are the critical moments and clues to who I am?
How I liked to play
Board games and card games we played
Radio shows we listened to
One of the more helpful brief procedures for letting a small group get to know you is a "life graph"--a line drawn year by year showing the highs and lows of your life
Would it be enough to include blank pages for other special moments like the first gay crush, the first time you did drugs, an encounter with the police, the first time you had sex, the first experience of discrimination, the inability to get a job, the divorce, remembering the death of Malcolm X or Tupac or Cesar Chavez or Lady Diana or Mother Teresa, and so on?
Links for children; links; links
MyStory writing-aid app for Win95 (non-Web only)
Guidebooks: [ad]; [sample], [another], [ghostwriter], ditto, syllabus, ditto, therapeutic, tips, critique
Offline-texts bibliography, booklength, for children
"As long as memory remains unwritten it is safe." [cite]
Analysis of James Joyce's approach
John P Palmer: homepages as autobio; hypertexting existing autobios
U of Vt class: Samuel R Delany, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, Cindy Sherman, Rene Magritte. [Amy Freed]
U of Texas class: Gertrude Stein, Jack Kerouac, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston
Myron Turner's Sea-Changes meta-biography [about]
Music: Jorn Barger (w/links), ???
Links: to Amazon's RealAudio samples of your faves at different periods
Internet: Jorn Barger (w/links)
Links: to old archives of your Net postings
Drugs: Erik Davis
Nature: R. Hays Cummins (w/links, illustrated); Jim Macdonald
Cars: Joe Aldern
Computer graphics: Gavin Miller
Writing: Beth Sehill
Education: Liza w/pix
Links: the homepage of your school, mentions of teachers and classmates
High school: Jorn Barger
Transgendered: Kelsy
Medical: Barry D. Sheets
Religious: Charles Darwin, Randy Willis, Kathleen Long, Andrew Palfreyman
Movies: anon
Links: Internet Movie Database entries
Theater: Lady Gregory
Baseball: David Perkins
Career: Terri Welles (playmate), Jim Fitzpatrick (archeologist), Alan Weiss (marine)
Children's: Anthony Ortelli (10yo), Sarah Longval (12yo), Marcel Proust (13yo), Alex Vaynshteyn (15yo); [poens]
Cults: Philip Brown
Attitude: anon
Most detailed: Archimedes Plutonium, Bud Finlayson, Walt Karwicki, Stephen H
Frames: Glenn McMurry, Arn Anderson, Kornel Romaniuk
Multipage topical: Evany Thomas, Holly Lisle (fantasy author), Kardas, Adina S
Multipage illustrated: Bicycle Boy, Myron Turner, JK Rowling
Multipage hand-drawn: Betsy Byars, Luc Leplae, Carol Lay
Multipage: Steve Edwards, Donald L Mark
Onepage w/links: Erik Davis, Michael J. Miller, Dono Harjanto, Charles E. Galvin, Jr, Ron Gambill, Viktoriya Sokolova, Al Lutins, Eric P Hibbison
Onepage illustrated: Piper Louise Gump
No links, one page: Zulfikar Ramzan, Jeffrey Scott, Ian Coffey, Daniel Diaz, Long Vang, Maria Dorothea O'Ryan
Imaginative: porcupine
Search-patterns: "I was born...", "my autobiography"
Ted Nelson (hypertext pioneer)
Mark Twain, Jonathan Swift, Italo Calvino, Mother Jones, August Derleth, Nikola Tesla
Religious: Paramhansa Yogananda, George Fox, St Patrick, Isaac Lane, Amanda Smith
Social scientists: Margaret Sanger, BF Skinner, Milton Friedman, George J Stigler, Franco Modigliani
Scientists: S Chandrasekhar, TH Huxley
US black leaders: Booker T Washington, James W Johnson, Fredrick Douglass
US politics: Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson [onepage]
Weni (GIFs of heiroglyphics)
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